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CNN Pays Don Lemon $24.5 Million to Settle Anchor's Network Ouster

Former CNN host Don Lemon landed a $24.5 million deal after he was fired from CNN after making comments about Nikki Haley's age.

Lemon got in the crosshairs with CNN brass when he moved from his popular primetime show to the mornings, alongside hosts Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow. He startled his female colleagues with his implication that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, at age 51, was past her prime. “I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly,” he said, while under the tenure of former embattled CNN chief Chris Licht, who was fired months later.

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